Italian Shelves

LB7 bookcase, designed by Franco Albini and manufactured by Poggi in 1957. Modular bookstore composed by upholds, containers with flying and doors, shelve. The industrial standard for every product component allows permanent and different solutions, from the bearing structures to the elements. The structure does not need anchorages to the wall and can be placed in the middle of the space. This set is composed of 3 modules, ten shelves, and three containers. It is made of Rosewood, iron, and brass. Excellent vintage condition. Franco Albini was born in Robbiate in 1905, and after his childhood and part of his youth, he moved to Milan. He graduated at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, in 1929, and He collaborated for three years in Giò Ponti and Emilio Lancia’s office. He probably had his international contacts here, at The International Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona and Paris, where he visited le Corbusier’s office, as Franca Helg used to tell. Throughout these first three years, his works were undoubtedly related to XIXth Century. His meeting with Edoardo Persico marks an evident turnover towards rationalism and writers for “Casabella” magazine. Persico’s thoughtful and ironical comments on some of Albini’s drawings for office furniture caused him deep upsetting. “I spent days of real anxiety – tells Albini – I had to answer all questions. I had a long fever”. The new phase that the meeting provoked begins with opening his own first office at Via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of Architects starts taking care of social housing, participating in the competition for the Baracca neighborhood in 1932, and then realizing the Ifacp neighborhood: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ettore Ponti (1939). During those years, He also worked for his first private villa (Pestarini). It is mainly in the context of exhibitions that the Italian architect experiments the compromise between rigor and poetic fantasy that Pagano was talking about; He conceived all the elements that would become recurrent in all types of his work – Architecture, Interiors, Design. The 1933 opening of the new Triennale of Milano, in Palazzo dell’Arte, becomes an occasion to express the highly innovative character of rationalist thinking. In this place, to experiment with new materials and solutions, but most of all a “method”. Young rationalist architects cultivated the art of exhibiting as a communication lab, an open field to space solutions. Albini, with Giancarlo Palanti, sets the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and coordination by G. Pagano) designing also its furniture. For the next Triennale in 1936, marked by Persico’s early death, Franco Albini, together with a group of young architects around Pagano, takes care of the exhibition of Dwelling, where he presented 3 types of lodgings. In the same year, Albini and Romano design the exhibition for Ancient Italian jewelry: vertical uprights, simple linear poles design space. This element is recurring in other works, like the Scipione exhibition (1941), Vanzetti stand (1942), and Olivetti shop in Paris (1956). The architectural space is readable through a grid, introducing a third dimension, the vertical one, with a sense of lightness and transparency. Upright is also used in design objects, such as the Veliero bookcase...

Modular Italian shelving String style, with integrated desk. It is composed of a black lacquered metal structure with brass details that supports the adjustable shelves, a storage mo...

Exclusive mid century wall unit made from wood and black metal legs. It consists of a lowboard with 4 drawers, 2 doors and on top of that we have a bar compartment and another two d...

Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno, wall-mounted wall unit, metal, white laminated wood, Italy, 1950s  This wall mounted shelving system was designed by Osvaldo Borsani. Its purpose was a co...

Mid-Century Modern "Lb7" Bookcase by Franco Albini for Poggi, Italy, 1950s Height is adjustable

A bamboo and rattan wall mounted console designed and produced by a Italian designer, Italy, 1950s.

Mid-Century Modern Large Wall Unit by Poul Cadovius for Royal System , 1950s

Guglielmo Pecorini, wall shelf unit, walnut, Italy, design 1954, production 1950s Adjustable unit consisting of a wall construction and two shelves. This piece is designed by Italia...

Mid-Century Modern Bookcase by Ico Parisi, Wood and Glass, Italy, 1950s

This double-sided freestanding E22 bookcase is a rare and peculiar example of Borsani's innovative design and the Tecno manufacturing expertise. Its construction of metal, wood, and ...

Italian dark wood shelves bookcase with floor and ceiling uprights, designed by Franco Albini in 1956 for Poggi Pavia, shelves and container with wood veneer adjustable in height and...

Mid-Century Modern Italian Wall Unit, Wood, 1950s

Mid-Century Modern 'LB2' Bookcase by Ignazio Gardella, Italy, 1950s

Mid-Century Modern Bookshelf by Angelo Mangiarotti and Bruno Morassutti, Italy, 1950s Height is modular.

Feal (Fonderie Elettriche Alluminio e Lega), model ‘S2’ wall unit, teak, anodized aluminum, Italy, 1950s Both aesthetics and functionality comes into play in this bookcase shelf; e...

Étagère in legno di faggio e vetro. Un elegante Étagère, accuratamente restaurato dal nostro laboratorio con intervento di rinnovo totale della lucidatura, la parte lignea ritorna co...

Pair of walnut storage pieces with shelves and two fall doors. The pieces can be combined in different positions.

Introducing a stunning Midcentury Italian Teak Modular Wall Unit that seamlessly blends style and functionality. This exquisite piece, now available ...

Lips Vago, 'Triennale' set of four shelving units or bookcases, dark green lacquered steel, Italy, design 1954 Constructed from steel sheets, the 'Triennale' bookcase or shelving un...

Very nice free standing shelve system, fabricated in Italy in the 50's. Wooden (teak veneer) shelves with a black painted metal system. It is very easy to disassemble. We work wit...

Very nice Italian corner shelf made of bamboo and wickerwork. Three identical shelves in total. Very good condition.

A wall-mounted bookcase designed and produced by FEAL, Italy, 1950s. Produced in brass, lacquered metal, and wood.

Equipped wall in laminate and lacquered wood sides. 2 Central metal legs with adjustable brass feet. Good condition can be easily disassembled and assembled Italy 1950/60. Packaging...

Modular bookcase unique in style, design, planning and materials. The Mascagni company for the excellent quality and uniqueness of its products boasted in the 50's a reference of exc...

Recently imported from Italy, this is a good example of post war Italian Avant Garde design. Measuring an impressive 3-metres from floor to ceiling – a common height in Italian apartments – with opportunity to arrange the shelves to suit. This impressive freestanding storage...

Floor-to-ceiling wooden bookcase with three modules, features ceiling elements which, thanks to a sliding system, can be adjusted in height with gilded brass tips, includes 5 shelves...

This hanging shelf was produced in Italy around the 1950s. It is made from teakwood and remains in overall good condition. Shelf is part of a 1950s furniture made in part with furnit...

Ico Parisi, Italian Mid-Century Bookshelf in Rosewood and Ashwood, circa 1950 Ico Parisi was an Italian architect and designer. Born Domenico Parisi in 1916 in Palermo, Italy, he was involved in building construction and architecture in Como during his early adulthood. By the 1940s, Parisi took up filmmaking and began designing furniture in 1945, for which he would become most renowned. His designs are characterised by their Italian mid-century Modern aesthetic, constructed using soft woods often cut into boomerang-like shapes, augmented by metal slats and boldly coloured upholstery. His most prolific period was the two decades that preceded 1965, when he married and formed a design team with his wife, Luisa Aiani, in 1948. He studied architecture between 1949–1952 under Alberto Sartoris...

Very nice free standing shelve system, fabricated in Italy in the 50's. 4 wooden shelves with a black painted metal system and brass feet. It is very easy to disassemble with 8...

Showcase bookcase 1 of 2 left and right in blond mahogany 50s bronze tips The guides of the sliding glasses are in brass, have 2 doors with greek classicism decoration. The style, de...

Showcase bookcase 1 of 2 left and right in blond mahogany 50s bronze tips The guides of the sliding glasses are in brass, have 2 doors with greek classicism decoration. The style, de...

Very nice free standing shelve system, fabricated in Italy in the 50's. 4 wooden (teak veneer) shelves with a black painted metal system. It ...

Glass & Wrought Iron Shelf by Pierluigi Colli, 1950s.

Wrought iron console table with mirrored back by Pierluigi Colli, 1950s. Packaging with bubble wrap and cardboard boxes is included. If the wooden packaging is needed (fumigated crat...

Urio wall system in hardwood designed in 1957 by Ico Parisi for MIM Roma, Italy. Different elements including shelves, desk, chest of drawers and cupboards with sliding doors.

Very nice free standing shelve system, fabricated in Italy in the 50's. 5 wooden (teak veneer) shelves with a black painted metal system. It ...

Teak shelf with adjustable shelves in height, black lacquered metal feet and brass height adjustable pads.

Twisted "rope" style Italian étagère, shelving with curled feet and curled "finials". Gilt finish is mostly worn. Four glass shelves are 28.25 inches by 14.25 inches.

This stunning ètagére represents the timeless elegance of Mid-Century Modern Italian at its finest. It features a pair of lustrous brass cylindrical legs that taper at its base to ba...

Shelve midcentury Italian design geometric shape mahogany glass minimal design.

Midcentury shelf Italian design brass Gols wood newspapers.

Exceptional central set of shelves - vitrine in solid and veneered mahogany, glass flap door with 2 glass shelves inside, decorated with marquetry and ...

Italian shelf from the 1950s very special design, sanded glass top, beech wood columns and brass finishings, particular elegance for this shelf of art, note the shape of the bean glass.

Shelve Mid-Century Italian design 1950s minimal design.

Small console or shelf De Baggis manufacturing 1950s.

Brass base, fume glass shelves excellent vintage condition but it may show slight traces of use. First glass shelf height is 28 and the second is 34.5 inches. Sipping to Continental ...

Architectural Slant front Desk constructed from oak with shelves on one side over top of 4 slant front drawers for storage design attributed to Paolo Buffa.

Stunning bookcase or wall unit in the style of Gio Ponti. Constructed of lacquered fruitwood and an ingenious modular design. I have matching desk which came from the same place.

66" gilded Mid-Century iron four-tier shelf.

In the LB7 library of the Poggi production (1956), we find all the principles long treated by Albini on the theme of the light upright, which in this modular syst...

Unique Ico Parisi Hang Corner Shelf in Walnut from Italy 1950s. There is only one known to be made. The corner shelf has two flush drawers one that features a vertical textured effec...

Curved midcentury bookcase with shelves and doors in bamboo Italian design.